Danfeng - the rich, the poor, the beautiful and the ugly!
on Kirsten VSO (China), 18/Nov/2009 00:48, 34 days ago
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Although Danfeng is officially classified as a poor part of rural China, not everything in the town is basic or falling apart. There are plenty of small, expensive looking shops where the owners take great pride in keeping them sparkling and pretty like this Chinese version of Boots.There are also much poorer looking areas, where the shops are simply goods placed on the ground outside the people's houses, like this pots and pans shop.And again, there are many people with no shop at all but simply a cart they wheel into town every morning and home again each night - and mostof the vegetable carts have great looking vegetables!Shopping(or window shopping) is the main activity for people roundhere but I prefer to walk down by the river which is much more peaceful and the colours of the mountains in the early evening are beautiful.And finally, as promised, me in my newred coat - though unfortunately most of the snow had gone by the time I got round to taking a pic!
